Chapter 524: Powerful

"Limit Break State!"

Li Pin's inner spirit erupted violently, pushing his body to its limits. A blood-red blaze seemed to engulf him—a manifestation of his blazing inner spirit and the dispersal of his blood into a fine mist.

The resonance of his spiritual will disturbed the surrounding atoms, causing Eternal Light, Absolute Darkness to revolve around him ceaselessly. The dark hue of the flame resembled warning lights in a nuclear reactor leak, shrouding him.

The Astral God's expression, once carrying a hint of admiration, shifted into a frown as he sensed something. "Hmm?"

In the next instant, Li Pin vanished. Like a violently bursting electron, he emitted a blinding white light and disappeared from the Astral God's perception. This sudden change caused the Astral God's expression to change.

"Eternal Light, Fleeting Gleam!"

In a flash, Li Pin reappeared, unleashing the same attack. But this time, it was faster and stronger.

Even then, an Astral God was no ordinary opponent. Though their raw power was capped at Tier Six Legendary, their exceptional mastery and control over it allowed them to rival even the most exceptionally talented Legends and Divine Beings. In fact, they were among the strongest at that level.

Like this Astral God, whose avatar clearly possessed a Power Level above 150,000.

Even with Li Pin's Limit Break State doubling his speed, strength, reaction, and explosive power, the Astral God's absolute control and flawless inner spirit allowed him to react instantly.

Without hesitation, the Astral God struck with precision, his palm radiating a star-like brilliance. It seemed to form an absolute domain made entirely of astral energy, enveloping the blow Li Pin had unleashed.

However, the instant their forces collided, the Astral God's expression darkened.

Li Pin's Natal Planet surged to its peak, transforming as if from a regular planet to a neutron star. Its mass remained unchanged, but its rotation accelerated, generating an unprecedented Celestial Magnetic Field.

This force resonated outwards in powerful waves, creating a crushing blow like a collapsing mountain. It obliterated everything in its path before forming a dark vacuum akin to a cosmic tsunami, threatening to engulf the Astral God's avatar.

As swift as the wind, as fierce as fire. This was Eternal Light, Thunder God.

The avatar was visibly taken aback. "Overpowering precision with brute force?"

However, he unleashed a torrent of inner spirit power, radiating starlight no less intense than Li Pin's. "This isn't enough!"

His hand ignited like a miniature sun, compressing its energy into a space less than ten meters wide before unleashing it. The destructive force was enough to obliterate planets tens of thousands of kilometers in diameter and effortlessly erase Tier Six Legends.

The blinding brilliance tore through the darkness, splitting and tearing apart Li Pin's Thunder God strike, like sunlight breaking through the gloom.

Once again, Li Pin's attack, unleashed in his Limit Break State, was crushed head-on.

As the vast and violent energy ripped through the darkness, the Astral God's avatar formed a sword with his left hand. At the precise moment when Li Pin's energy faltered, the sword thrust forward with unerring accuracy.

The blade had yet to reach Li Pin, but the Sword Intent it radiated weighed on his inner spirit, seeking to tear a crack in his flawless inner spirit cycle and infuse it with destructive intent.

𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Escape? Impossible.

At least, in his current state, evading the strike as he had before was impossible.

If the sword connected, the Astral God's precise control would obliterate Li Pin at an atomic level, leaving nothing behind—not even a single red blood cell for regeneration.

This was overwhelming power. The Astral God's avatar demonstrated an unassailable might. Forget Tier Six Legends, even a true Divine Being would be annihilated before such strength.

Faced with this, Li Pin's battle intent and inner spirit surged to their peak. If evasion was impossible now, then... he had to push on!

"Stage Two Limit Break!"

"Eternal Light, Fleeting Gleam!"

As the unparalleled brilliance of the Astral God's sword was about to pierce through Li Pin, he exploded into dazzling lightning, vanishing from the sword's reach and reappearing thousands of meters away.

The Astral God's expression darkened. "He evaded!?"

Li Pin could still get stronger?

As the Astral God relied on his acute perception and absolute control of the battlefield to swiftly lock onto Li Pin's position thousands of meters away, brilliant and radiant arcs of lightning erupted from Li Pin once more.

"Something's wrong!"

The light triggered the Astral God's reflexes to an unimaginable peak. Or rather, the workings of his inner spirit had transcended the limits of reaction, ascending to a state of almost precognitive awareness.

Foreknowledge! Or rather... premonition!

When Li Pin unleashed two consecutive Eternal Light, Fleeting Gleam strikes in his Stage Two Limit Break state, it felt as though two quantum particles became entangled.

The Astral God's avatar twisted its form instantaneously at a speed surpassing light and neural response limits. A surge of boiling inner spirit, infused with a strike as fierce as fire, roared toward the left and clashed head-on with Li Pin's Fleeting Gleam and Thunder God strike.

This kind of power... it surpassed mere technique.

Rumble, rumble!

Violent energy erupted the instant their attacks clashed.

The Astral God's avatar, forced into a hurried counterattack, lost control of the precise release of his energy. The terrifying attack unleashed a torrent of energy that poured onto the moon beneath them, which spanned over two thousand kilometers in diameter.

In an instant, the moon was wiped clean of a vast plain. Over 100,00 square kilometers of land evaporated into cosmic dust, blending into a brilliance so intense it was blinding, vanishing into nothingness.

And this was just the beginning.

Li Pin's Stage Two Limit Break state lacked refined technique and seemed distant from the path of omniscience and omnipotence he pursued. Yet, it demonstrated something else—unparalleled speed and overwhelming power.

Each of his strikes, empowered by absolute speed and strength, became an unstoppable force capable of pulverizing planets.

When one strike was blocked by the Astral God, Li Pin exploded into another burst of Eternal Light, Fleeting Gleam, shifting direction faster than anyone could follow.

Then... a new strike descended like lightning.

As the saying goes, "Defense falters over time."

Despite the Astral God's avatar near-Dao level control over his strength, instantly perceiving Li Pin's presence and launching a fierce counterattack, he was nonetheless overwhelmed by the overwhelming speed and power. He almost had no chance to retaliate.

In a single instant, as the Astral God's avatar's power faltered slightly, a terrifying force erupted. The force violently smashed into him, sending him crashing to the ground like a meteorite at speeds many times greater than the speed of sound.

Boom!

A crater over a hundred kilometers wide formed where the avatar crashed.

Under the violent impact, the Astral God's avatar crashed through the moon's crust and continued its descent toward the planet's depths.

As the avatar plummeted toward the magma layer, he channeled the terrifying destructive energy, transmitting it through the planet's structure and unleashing catastrophe upon the surrounding geology. Immense, unimaginable fissures rapidly spread from the point of impact, accompanied by torrents of molten lava erupting from the newly formed cracks.

From a vantage point hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, an observer would have witnessed a clear and devastating impact. The planet appeared to have been struck head-on by an object of immense mass traveling at a terrifying velocity, instantly creating a colossal crater.

Hundreds of thousands, millions, even billions of tons of earth, rock strata, and mountain peaks were ejected into space. The planet itself fractured violently, with cracks radiating outwards from the impact epicenter.

With continuous tremors from within, the fissures quickly spread across the entire moon.

Finally, the two-thousand-kilometer-wide moon could no longer withstand the internal forces. In a flash of blinding light, it violently exploded, shattering into countless fragments that scattered into space.

Brilliant light burst from the heart of these fragments, as if a sun of the same size had ignited inside the moon. As this "sun" flared to life, it triggered an even more powerful explosion.

A release of energy, similar to a supernova, sent shockwaves racing through space, tearing through the broken moon.

Trillions of tons of debris, already shattered into smaller fragments, completely lost any possibility of being reassembled by gravitational forces and disintegrated into dust, scattering farther into the universe.

The violent energy storm generated by the cataclysmic impact even extended over a million kilometers, affecting a colossal planet with a diameter of over sixty thousand kilometers...

The true horror of the ensuing devastation... remained known only to the lifeforms inhabiting that world.

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The supernova-like explosion of energy swept across space. At the heart of it all, the Astral God's avatar began to reform.

"Did you truly think I was forced to retreat to this planet because I was weaker than you? I merely used the planet's gravitational field to disrupt your movements, drain your stamina, and set the stage for my victory. The power of an Astral God is all-encompassing, including mastery over the environment."

The Astral God watched Li Pin. Li Pin's body was recovering rapidly, but his Vitality, Qi, and Spirit were visibly beginning to wane.

The Astral God smiled and clapped slowly. "Forbidden techniques? Or Divine Weapon? Such overexertion is unsustainable, but to have forced me to this point... you are commendable. You are far from weak, even among the Divines. No wonder you had the audacity to leave the Mara Divine Treasury Hall alone."

The smile faded from his face, replaced by an air of cold indifference. "Perhaps, one day, you could have ascended to become an Astral God. But unfortunately, you met me."

The avatar raised a hand, extended a sharply clawed forefinger, and pointed at Li Pin. "Now, it ends."